The moon is fat and the night air is so pure it seems edible.
ROBERTO BOLANOPoetry and prison have always been neighbors.
More Roberto Bolano Quotes
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Literature + Illness = Illness.
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You have to know how to look even if you don’t know what you’re looking for.
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I’m an educated man, the prisons I know are subtle ones.
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we interpret life at moments of the deepest desperation.
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In the current socio-political climate, he said to himself, committing suicide is absurd and redundant. Better to become an undercover poet.
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If you’re going to say what you want to say, you’re going to hear what you don’t want to hear.
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Reading is pleasure and happiness to be alive or sadness to be alive and above all it’s knowledge and questions.
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Death, in the Eastern tradition, was only a passage. What wasn’t clear, was toward what place, what reality, that passage led.
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There is a time for reciting poems and a time for fists.
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When I was done traveling, I returned convinced of one thing: we’re nothing.
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Poetry is the one thing that isn’t contaminated, the one thing that isn’t part of the game.
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We’re artists too, but we do a good job hiding it, don’t we?
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Dreams fade with morning light, Never a morn for thee, Dreamer of dreams, goodnight.
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No one pays attention to these killings, but the secret of the world is hidden in them.
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For her, reading was directly linked to pleasure, not to knowledge or enigmas or constructions or verbal labyrinths.
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